Women in Kentucky - Reform

 

REFORM

Pearl Ferguson of Owensboro, born 1894
July 7, 1986

Interviewer, Kevin Eans, part of the Owensboro oral history project, “A Generation Remembers”

Courtesy of the Kentucky Oral History Commission, Special Collection Archives, Kentucky Historical Society.


Oh they were very excited

We just went right around everywhere and made speeches, I did, and everybody else did you know

And we just . . .

Cause we felt like we should have the right to vote

So we really worked at it

We’d have a weekly meeting, you know, at the church

We worked very hard at it

We were very, very . . .

I don’t know of . . .

I don’t recall every woman [any women] who didn’t believe in it . . .